1. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold a man, with a measuring line in his hand.
2. And I said: Whither goest thou? and he said to me: To measure Jerusalem, and to see how great is the breadth thereof, and how great the length thereof.
3. And behold the angel that spoke in me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him.
4. And he said to him: Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, by reason of the multitude of men, and of the beasts in the midst thereof.
5. And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about: and I will be in glory in the midst thereof.
6. O, O flee ye out of the land of the north, saith the Lord, for I have scattered you into the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord.
7. O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon: